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How is this not called "Byron"?
by trollian 3y ago
How is this not called "Byron"?
- nmz 3y agoStop being smart. The tool is called GetAda, what does it do? It gets ada. What would byron do? will you remember 3 years from now?
- jclulow 3y agoWell then surely it should be "UpdAda"? (I hardly...)
- timeon 3y agoHow about "AddUp"?
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoWhat happens when the community decides this one isn’t good enough and comes up with a replacement? The problem I’ve always had with these descriptive names is (a) they are often hard to google because they conflict with all sorts of documentation about the problem space and (b) when they’re deprecated, they become a trap for beginners. “Cute” project names are better for the same reason as we don’t name children and pets random English phrases describing them.
- jrockway 3y agoThe replacement can just be called getada2. It worked for Python's standard library (unittest2 and all that).
- nmz 3y agoOr fetchAda or grabAda, english is filled with synonyms.
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoImagine if this happened with stream processing systems: “here at Acme Corp we decided that Apache Stream Processing wasn’t nearing our needs so we switched to Apache Creek Processing after evaluating it and Microsoft’s River Processing solution”
- pixelatedindex 3y agoIs this supposed to be a reference to something? I'm not following this logic :(
- sebtron 3y agoByron (the poet) was Ada Lovelace's father